Determining the Syntactic Structure of Medical Terms in Clinical Notes

This paper demonstrates a method for determining the syntactic structure of medical terms. We use a model-fitting method based on the Log Likelihood Ratio to classify three-word medical terms as right or left-branching. We validate this method by computing the agreement between the classification produced by the method and manually annotated classifications. The results show an agreement of 75%--83%. This method may be used effectively to enable a wide range of applications that depend on the semantic interpretation of medical terms including automatic mapping of terms to standardized vocabularies and induction of terminologies from unstructured medical text.

• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  BioNLP@ACL

• Publication date

  2007-06-29

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3115/1572392.1572395
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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